This summer, President Donald Trump told my colleague Michael Scherer that “America First” means whatever he decides it means. Now—as...

Illustrations by Nicolás Ortega The historian Rob Boddice sat cross-legged on his couch in Montreal on a frigid day last...

Like many other components of our constitutional system meant to restrain an overreaching executive, the Senate power of “advice and...

There was no good reason to be thinking about NFL history when the Dallas Cowboys took on the Las Vegas...

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Updated with new questions at 3:30 p.m. ET on December 4, 2025. I have much extolled here the value of...

The report from the Pentagon’s Inspector General’s investigation into “Signalgate,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s transmission of the details of...

Before Sam Kirchner vanished, before the San Francisco Police Department began to warn that he could be armed and dangerous,...

Today The Atlantic is announcing that Michael Leibel will join as senior editor for community. Michael begins on Monday, and...

In the months leading up to last year’s presidential election, more than 2,000 Americans, roughly split across partisan lines, were...

All Her Fault contains two dramas. One—melodramatic, Hitchcockian at its best, Lifetime-hacky at its worst—follows all the most generic beats...

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A recent grocery run in Brooklyn left me properly confused. When I approached the registers, little coconut waters in hand,...

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